The Official 2017 Cambridge Applicants Thread [part 3]

With that say, I will finally conclude by saying I HAVE AN OFFER

Nominative determinism strikes again

Congratulations (and thanks)!

Out of sheer curiosity, I must ask - what is nominative determinism?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism



OP was clearly destined to get the offer...

And here I was thinking it was something to do with the nominative case, should have guessed it would have to do with the name. (Hmm, I've never considered, could 'nominative' be descended from 'nomen', the Latin for 'name', among other translations.)

(Yes, I spend way too much time among Latin.)

Yup, just like genitive comes from gignere and dative from dare (and I was confused by that determinism in the exact same way )

Hahaha that's true less time and it is definitely cheaper if US doesn't offer financial aid. You applied for ESPS in UCL? Hahaha I think the one in HK as well, you need to be a resident of HK to have an interview there :/ More Oxford applicants in the US compared to Cambridge

IB mocks are coming up soon AP mocks are not that bad, cuz we have to take 2-3 exams per subject.... Biology is such a broad field, both on the macro and micro levels. Hahaha well modern society is capitalist in nature, so you can make that argument that everything has something to do with maths and yeah development of science is very much influenced by mathematical models and theories. Meh... still have more days of school after that so probs not :/ homework never stops

Ablative comes from 'aufero' (just wanted to add my own two cents)

Have fellow Classicists finally landed?!?

Have fellow Classicists finally landed?!?

Latin is bae lmao could talk for ageeeesss about it, lit AND lang

Ooooooooooooooooh.

Oxford is not ugly, it's marvellous!

Oxford is admittedly more traditionally pretty but Cambridge’s botanical gardens > oxford’s botanical gardens

and currently attempting to translate from ovid right now lol

I have honestly visited neither botanical gardens, so I'll leave it at 'Oxford is ... more ... pretty'.

I have Tacitus. I've translated Ovid before, and I can tell you it seemed OK for me, but Tacitus - Tacitus is horrible.

are you doing the annals 4, by any chance? It feels weird to be translating what was essentially the roman version of The Sun or The Mirror

Yep. Translating them, cursing them, screaming in frustration as I search for the bloody verbs in them ...

have fun with tacitus and all his linguistic complexities!

It is so much cheaper than a US uni with little aid! I looked into ESPS but I didn't like its focus on Europe...I applied to PPE which has like a 3% acceptance rate but I just thought I'd try for the heck of it

2-3 exams per subject sounds absolutely brutal...you poor soul...I just pretty much have to make sure I don't fail any class, and colleges won't revoke my admission and yeah, a little maths is in everything 20/80 principle?

Hello! And I don't put the cat out, I clean out its litter and feed it, not leave it outside in the cold.

(And I'm only harmless so far, I still have yet to get vengeance against @carpenoctem ... )

I'm still waiting